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Theft
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Sentencing Law and Policy
“60-year sentence reinstated for Hurricane Katrina housing scam”
Main March 14, 2012"60-year sentence reinstated for Hurricane Katrina housing scam"The title of this post is the headline of this local news report, which gets started this way: The Louisiana…
Legal Profession Blog
From Law School To Puerto Vallarta
An update on the Vanderbilt Law theft case from WKRN-TV news:A second man has been arrested in connection to the theft of a large amount of money from Vanderbilt University.According…
Legal Profession Blog
Vanderbilt Law Employee Faces Extradition From Arkansas
A report on the Vanderbilt Law thefts from today's The Tennessean:A former Vanderbilt Law School manager is awaiting extradition from Arkansas on charges that he stole more than $600,000 from…
Cruise Law News
Carnival Crewmember Travel Coordinator Arrested For Fraud and Grand Theft
By Jim Walker
A fifty-one year old employee of Carnival Cruise Lines has been arrested for organized fraud and theft. Miami resident Serafin Sanchez was arrested and booked on two criminal counts, described as organized…
Idaho Criminal Defense Blog
Bujak Charged With Grand Theft – Tells Investigators He Took The Money
The other shoe has fallen. John Bujak, formerly the Canyon County Prosecutor, has been charged with Grand Theft by Deception and by Embezzlement, and the investigation of the case is…
Nonprofit Law Prof Blog
Sole Control of Finances Led to Alleged Theft
The Pennsylvania Attorney General has been busy in recent days. One news release deals with a lack of financial controls in a nonprofit and charges of theft for money allegedly…
PropertyProf Blog
The Greatest Property Crime of All Time?
By propertyprof
Thieves outside of Pittsburgh just stole a bridge. Really:Police said a bridge worth about $100,000 was stolen in North Beaver Township, Lawrence County. Investigators said someone stole a 50 by…
Legal Profession Blog
Public Housing Benefits Crime, Cocaine Possession, Result In Indefinite Suspension
The web page of the Ohio Supreme Court reports:The Supreme Court of Ohio has indefinitely suspended the license of [a] Willoughby attorney...for professional misconduct arising from her convictions on felony…
Sentencing Law and Policy
“OSU book thief sentenced to probation and restitution”
Main September 6, 2011"OSU book thief sentenced to probation and restitution"Because this new piece from the Columbus Dispatch, which has the same headline as this post, strikes very "close to…
Legal Profession Blog
A Series Of Petty Thefts
From the September 2011 California Bar Journal:[An attorney] was suspended for four years, stayed, placed on four years of probation with a two-year actual suspension and until she proves her…